Download or read book The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Criticisms Reflections and Maxims of Goethe Classic Reprint written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe Johann wolfgang von goethe was born on the a8th August 1749, at frankfort-ou-the-main. His family lived in comfortable circumstances, and from Michaelmas 1765 till the autumn of 1768 young Goethe studied jurisprudence at Leipzig. In the spring of 1770 he went to Strasburg, where he graduated in the following year. In August 1771 he was sworn in as a lawyer in his native town. The summer of 1772 was spent at Wetzlar, and the three years following at home. About this time he formed several noteworthy acquaintances, with Klinger, Merck, Jacobi, Lavater, and others. His Ge'fz (177 3) and Warmer (1774) earned for him among his nation the fame of a writer of the highest rank. This led to an invitation from the Duke Karl August of Weimar, in October 1775, to Goethe to take up his residence in that town; he arrived there in the following month, and in 1776 decided to make it his permanent abode. Before long he was united to the Duke in the closest of friendships, and was appointed member of the Council, with a seat and a vote, in June 1776, and Privy Councillor in 1779. A few years later he was also entrusted with the control of the ducal exchequer, and in 1782 he was raised by the 'emperor to the nobility. The period between. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Maxims and Reflections written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.
Download or read book The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... LIFE AND CHARACTER LIFE AND CHARACTER I I THERE is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again. 2 How can a man come to know himself? Never by thinking, but by doing. Try to do your duty, and you will know at once what you are worth. 3 But what is your duty? The claims of the day. 4 The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental. 5 The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity, -- to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything. 6 Be genuine and strenuous; earn for yourself, and look for, grace from those in high places; from the powerful, favour; from the active and the good, advancement; from the many, affection; from the individual, love. 7 Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are. If I know what your business is, I know what can be made of you. 8 Every man must think after his own fashion; for on his own path he finds a truth, or a kind of truth, which helps him through life. But he must not give himself the rein; he must control himself; mere naked instinct does not become him. 9 Unqualified activity, of whatever kind, leads at last to bankruptcy. 10 In the works of mankind, as in those of nature, it is really the motive which is chiefly worth attention. 11 Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, ..
Download or read book Maxims and Reflections written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maxims and Reflections" represents Goethe's fourteen hundred maxims and reflections that reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature, and natural science. They also contain his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters, or his administrative work, which he used to note on theatre programs, visiting cards, draft manuscripts, and even bills while working on his numerous projects.
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Download or read book Maxims and Reflections of Goethe written by Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Human and Literature Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the reflections and maxims of Goethe, the greatest German poet. “There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again. The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity, to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.”
Download or read book The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Prose Maxims – New Complete Edition. Translated By Bailey Saunders. Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Only mankind can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment. The translation of Goethe's "Prose Maxims" now offered to the public is the first attempt that has yet been made to present the greater part of these incomparable sayings in English. In the complete collection they are over a thousand in number, and not more perhaps than a hundred and fifty have already found their way into our language, whether as contributions to magazines here and in America, or in volumes of miscellaneous extract from Goethe's writings. Some are at times quoted as though they were common literary property. To say that they are important as a whole would be a feeble tribute to a work eloquent for itself, and beyond the need of praise; but so deep is the wisdom of these maxims, so wide their reach, so compact a product are they of Goethe's wonderful genius, that it is something of a reproach to literature to find the most of them left untranslated for the sixty years they have been before the world. From one point of view, the neglect they have suffered is in no way surprising: they are too high and severe to be popular so soon; and when they meet with a wide acceptance as with other great works, much of it will rest upon authority. But even for the deeper side of his writings, Goethe has not been denied a fair measure of popular success. No other author of the last two centuries holds so high a place, or, as an inevitable consequence, has been attacked by so large an army of editors and commentators; and it might well be supposed by now that no corner of his work, and least of all one of the best, had remained almost unnoticed, and to the majority unknown. Many of these maxims were early translated into French, but with little success; and even in Germany it was only so late as the year 1870 that they appeared in a separate form, with the addition of some sort of critical comment and a brief explanation of their origin and history.
Download or read book Collected Maxims and Other Reflections written by Fran^cois de La Rochefoucauld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly.
Download or read book Johann Wolfgang Goethe Classic Reprint written by H. G. ATKINS and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Johann Wolfgang Goethe His short biography of Goethe is intended to deal rather with the author's life than with his works. As, however, the works of Goethe are perhaps more intimately bound up with his life than is the case with any other of the world's greatest writers, being, as he himself declared, fragments of a great confession, his writings, and especially the more directly auto biographical among them, form one of our chief sources of information concerning his life, and of elucidation of the motives that govern it. The length of the different sections is not regulated by the number of years comprised, but is deter mined rather by the degree of external movement and interest of the several periods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
